Popular Culture: 1980-1999

Popular Culture: 1980-1999 — page 3
such as eBay Popular youth culture in the 1980s and 1990s In the 1980s and 1990s youths would spend their time listening to rap on their boom boxes or perhaps pop on their Sony Walkmans They might go to the local video arcade to play video games such as Donkey Kong or Pac-Man or later in the decade go to their friends houses to play Dungeons and Dragons or The Legend of Zelda on their home computer BMX biking skateboarding and inline skating were fun and fashionable Roller discos were at their peak in the 1980s but had virtually disappeared by the end of the 1990s Special effects and computer-generated images CGI of films impressed movie goers and 3-D films tried to make Jaws 3 even scarier The Rubik’s cube filled many a frustrated hour in the 1980s as people tried to figure out how to get all of the same color squares onto the same side of the cube